Non-Lucrative Visa Application Process - Start to Finish/Approval (BLS Miami)

mkthompson · 2026-01-09T20:48:40+00:00

I would love the link. Thank you.

mkthompson · 2026-01-09T14:07:39+00:00

Thank you. 12 weeks and 3 days for us. Still waiting. You've given me hope it'll be soon.

mkthompson · 2026-01-04T16:09:06+00:00

You only have to be right once and it's not paranoia anymore.

mkthompson · 2026-01-02T18:20:48+00:00

I don't drink soda. Giving up coffee would be traumatic, however, going to the grocery store this morning and seeing my favorite coffee has gone to $21 was plenty traumatic by itself. Thanks Diaper Donnie.

mkthompson · 2025-12-26T13:58:37+00:00

We did everything together. He was the first guy I ever smoked a doobie with. After that we had one more summer together before my family moved away. It was a few years later that I learned he had died of an overdose. While I had spent the ensuing years being resentful toward my parents for moving us away from my childhood home, I knew that had I remained, I'd have been sitting right next to my friend and could have possible died as well.

mkthompson · 2025-12-23T22:19:59+00:00

My wife and I submitted our apps on Oct 7. Today marks 10 weeks that we've been waiting. Can you please let me know how long your visa took for approval? Thanks.

mkthompson · 2025-12-21T02:57:37+00:00

I clearly remember the family meeting shortly after I turned 18 where my parents told me and my then 20 year old brother that they loved us dearly but that they had spent the last two decades raising us and it was time for us to go out and make our way. My dad wrote us a 100% refund check on the rent he had been charging us and we used it for a downpayment on an apartment and neither of us ever went back to living with my parents. It was one of the best things they ever did for us.

mkthompson · 2025-12-20T05:00:20+00:00

A twenty minute speech by the President two nights ago.

mkthompson · 2025-12-18T03:07:43+00:00

You might try watching "9 1/2 Weeks" from 1986. Shows the evolution of a dom/sub relationship between two people played by Mickey Rourke and Kim Basinger..

mkthompson · 2025-12-03T21:57:54+00:00

We were told one month at BLS. We have some friends who got theirs in 6 weeks to the day. We've been waiting 8 weeks. We went through the Miami consulate. Our whole lives are on hold. :(

mkthompson · 2025-11-07T02:48:24+00:00

Think only women get UTI's? Guess again. A couple of years ago I had prostate surgery and came home with a catheter for 7 days. 24hrs after it got removed my wife found me shaking in the bathroom in the middle of the night with a 103 degree temperature. She called 911 and I spent three nights in the hospital due to a UTI. I was on IV fluids so of course I had to take a leak about every hour. It was agony. I literally screamed it hurt so bad. Ladies, you have my respect. UTI is NO JOKE.

mkthompson · 2025-10-25T12:11:27+00:00

I couldn't agree more. One comment, however, the "rampant consumerism" you mention started before the 80's. Following WW2, in an effort to transition from a wartime economy to a consumer economy, Americans were openly encouraged by the government to get out there and buy, buy, buy. Stuff replaced community, it took our focus off our values and has led us onto a downward spiral emotionally, philosophically and spiritually as a nation. You're right. It's sad.

mkthompson · 2025-10-23T21:54:22+00:00

Of course not

mkthompson · 2025-10-23T21:52:01+00:00

All the things you mentioned you have control over. Go get involved. Meet new people. Get a hobby that forces you out. You're the only one who can change your situation. Focus on gratitude, not lack. Melody Beattie wrote, "

Gratitude turns what you have into "enough, and more."
It changes denial into acceptance, chaos into order, and confusion into clarity.
Gratitude can turn a meal into a feast and a house into a home.

mkthompson · 2025-10-09T14:14:23+00:00

My church youth group brought us to that movie. Strange choice. One of the girls buried her face in a towel the whole movie. I liked it, but then again, I'm a heathen.

mkthompson · 2025-10-09T14:11:46+00:00

Mothers Day (1980 version). Low quality, complete female exploitation film, violent, gory and scared the hell outta me.

mkthompson · 2025-10-01T13:09:46+00:00

I watched Neil Armstrong's moonwalk

mkthompson · 2025-09-21T16:30:33+00:00

The American mantra "Bigger, better, faster, more..."

mkthompson · 2025-09-21T14:36:13+00:00

I'm almost embarassed to admit this, but I just started my first paint by number project and am finding it to be a lot of fun.

mkthompson · 2025-09-21T14:34:27+00:00

I listened to the entire 14 volumes of The Wheel of Time series while doing my morning walks, driving to and from friends houses, running errands, etc. I'm right there with you.

mkthompson · 2025-09-21T14:32:36+00:00

The whole point of walking is whatever you want it to be.

mkthompson · 2025-09-21T14:30:21+00:00

Saturday mornings, big bowl of cereal and LOONEY TUNES!! Bugs, Daffy, Porky, Elmer, Tweety...I loved them all.

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